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Before Columbus the Americas of 1491

This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians d...

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Main Author: Mann, Charles C.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Indians of Central America > Juvenile nonfiction.
Indians of South America > Juvenile nonfiction.
Indians of North America > Antiquities > Juvenile nonfiction.
America > Antiquities > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.
Item Description: "A Downtown Bookworks book."
Physical Description: ix, 116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Audience: Ages 8 up.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.
ISBN: 9781416949008 (reinforced) :
1416949003 (reinforced) :
Author Notes: Charles C. Mann is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired. He has also written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, the television network HBO, and the television series Law and Order. He has received writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.

He has written or co-written several books including The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics, The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition, Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species, At Large: The Strange Case of the Internet's Biggest Invasion, and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created which made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. His book, 1491, won the National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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